Charges are no longer being brought against two journalists who were arrested last month while reporting on the execution of a warrant by the RCMP at a pipeline construction site in northern British Columbia.
Documents filed with the BC Supreme Court this week show that the company building the Coastal GasLink pipeline filed notices to suspend proceedings against photojournalist Amber Bracken and documentary filmmaker Michael Toledano.
The couple had been charged with civil contempt of court and a judge released them on probation three days after being detained along with members of the Gidimt’en clan, who oppose the construction of the gas pipeline in the Wet’suwet’en territory. .
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Bracken and Toledano are no longer required to appear in court in February or comply with the terms of the court order first granted in December 2019.
Opposition among Wet’suwet’en’s hereditary chiefs to the 670-kilometer pipeline sparked rallies and rail blockades across Canada last year, while Wet’suwet’en’s First Nation elected council and others nearby have agreed to the draft.
The pipeline would transport natural gas from Dawson Creek in northeastern British Columbia to a processing facility in Kitimat.
It’s more than halfway done with nearly the entire route cleared and 200 kilometers of pipelines installed, Coastal GasLink said.
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